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Jacobo Morales

Film Director / Writer / Poet | * 11/12/1934 (89) | Lajas (Puerto Rico)
Jacobo Morales (born 12 November 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and auteur. Many consider him the most influential film director in Puerto Rico's history. ()

Jacobo Morales Ramírez (born November 12, 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and auteur. He is considered by many to be the most influential filmmaker in Puerto Rico. Jacobo Morales' "Lo que le pasó a Santiago" (1989) reached an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990, being the only Academy Award recognition a Puerto Rican film has yet to reach.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion. ...

Bananas

PG-13

1971 | 3.4/5 | 1h 22min
Comedy
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Film consisting of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritance; "Negocio redondo", about a lawyer selling a property to the Catholic church with guilty feeling ...

Dios los cría...

Certification unknown

1979 | 2.5/5 | 2h
Drama
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Santiago, a retired accountant, casually meets Angelina during one of his daily walks in Old San Juan. They soon become friends, even though she refuses to give out any personal information. ...

What Happened to Santiago

Certification unknown

1989 | 3.3/5 | 1h 45min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's d ...

Up the Sandbox

R

1972 | 3.0/5 | 1h 37min
Comedy, Drama
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Movies with Jacobo Morales as Actor(28)

as Priest2016 Andrea y Lorenzo
as himself2014 Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual
as Jacobo2013 I Am a Director
as Rafael Medina2012 Broche de Oro
2012 Medio minuto
2010 Il Viaggio
2010 El viaje de Tortuga
as Paco2008 La recompensa
as Mariano Farías2007 Angel
2005 El cuerpo del delito
2004 And God Created Them 2
2004 Amores
2002 Julia, toda en mí
as Dios1998 Angelito mío
as himself1998 Entangling Shadows
as Peyo Mercé1998 Cuentos para despertar
as Rodolfo1998 The Effects of Magic
as Pablo1995 Linda Sara
as Víctor Torres1991 San Juan Story
as Peyo Mercé1990 Cuentos de Abelardo
as Arístides Esquilín1989 What Happened to Santiago
as Nicolás1986 Nicolás y los demás
as Alberto Palacios (segment "Entre Doce Y Una")1979 Dios los cría...
as Fernando Sepúlveda (segment "La Otra")1979 Dios los cría...
as Fidel Castro1972 Up the Sandbox
as Esposito1971 Bananas
1970 Arocho y Clemente: los que murieron en la horca
as Moralito1965 La criada malcriada

Movies with Jacobo Morales as Crew(18)

Directing/Director2007 Angel
Writing/Writer2007 Angel
Directing/Director2004 And God Created Them 2
Writing/Writer2004 And God Created Them 2
Directing/Director1998 Entangling Shadows
Directing/Director1995 Linda Sara
Writing/Writer1995 Linda Sara
Directing/Director1989 What Happened to Santiago
Writing/Writer1989 What Happened to Santiago
Directing/Director1986 Nicolás y los demás
Production/Producer1986 Nicolás y los demás
Writing/Writer1986 Nicolás y los demás
Directing/Director1979 Dios los cría...
Editing/Editor1979 Dios los cría...
Production/Producer1979 Dios los cría...
Writing/Writer1979 Dios los cría...
Writing/Writer1965 La criada malcriada
Writing/Adaptation1965 La criada malcriada

Additional Information

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Full Name: Jacobo Morales
Citizenship: Puerto Rico
Born: Monday, 11/12 1934 (November) in Lajas (Puerto Rico) (current age: 89 years + 164 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Other names for Jacobo Morales (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Jacobo Morales Ramírez"
Jacobo Morales frequently works together with these people:
Antonio Betancourt (13x, Crew)
Blanca Silvia Eró (11x, Crew)
Pedro Rivera Toledo (8x, Crew)
Milton Graña (7x, Crew)
Miguel Ángel Suárez (6x, Actor)
Gladys Rodríguez (6x, Actress)
Raúl Marchand Sánchez (6x, Crew)
Rolando D'Lugo (6x, Cast)
Vicente Juarbe (6x, Crew)
Alfonso Borrell (6x, Crew)
Johanna Rosaly (5x, Actress)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:274785, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024